Yvette Montoya

This Art-Driven Movement Is Celebrating Latine Innovators in a Powerful Way

Through creativity, artists have the power to transform spaces, reinvent the familiar, uplift the mundane, and take viewers to worlds beyond their reality.

Artist Sentrock Uses His Murals to Explore the Confines of the Chicano Experience

Joseph Perez, known professionally as Sentrock, went from tagging walls in Phoenix, Arizona to creating commissioned works of art downtown Chicago.

This Latine Artist's Inner Child Inspires Her Chicago Murals

When Vanessa Garza, or Nez, as she's known professionally, started taking interest in art as a child, she never imagined her work would end up on the side of buildings, windows, and walls all over Chicago.

The History of Chinese Migration to Cuba — and Why We All Need to Know It

If anyone mentions Cuba's Barrio Chino or the history of Chinese Cubans, it's usually in reference to culinary traditions that were brought to places like Miami and New York City after the Cuban Revolution.

See the Epic 1950s Drive-In Celebrating “Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies” on Paramount+

Drive-in milkshake and fries, anyone?

Poet Yesika Salgado Gets Real About Writer's Block, Heartbreaking Success, and Going Back to Therapy

After the professional whirlwind of writing three critically acclaimed poetry books in a two-year span, Yesika Salgado now has the luxury of slowing down and tasting the mangoes.

Here's How to Incorporate Limpiezas Into Your Self-Care Routine

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It's Not Brujeria: Why Latinxs Should Use the Moon Phases to Their Advantage

Yes, Black Mexicans Exist: A Look at Mexico's Afro-Diasporic History

The first enslaved Africans arrived with Hernan Cortez in 1519.

Gina Rodriguez Is a Thirty-Something Finding Her Way in New TV Show "Not Dead Yet"

Gina Rodriguez already has several beloved characters under her belt, but her latest show "Not Dead Yet" is shaping up to be her next iconic role.

We Need More Culturally Relevant Afro-Latine Representation in Superhero Films

In the last few years, I've been really excited to see more Latine characters taking up space in sci-fi and superhero franchises.

How Afrodescendientes Are Unapologetically Embracing Their Ancestral Spirituality

A decade ago, if you Googled any of the following African religions, Ifá, Santería, Candomblé, Palo, or Vodun, only a spattering of entries would come up, and they'd probably be written from an outsider's anthropological perspective, rather than by the practitioners themselves.